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1. White supremacy, patriarchy and guns: Florida shooter had record of violence against women, ties to far right

   kill as many as i can.” Well, we’re joined right now by two guests. In Philadelphia, George ... a contributing writer to  The Intercept. Trevor, let’s begin with you. What needs to be understood right now ... correlation exists, that violence toward women, in this case, also violence toward animals, this sort of ...

2. Orwell: the decline of a middle-class radical

   380pp, $39.90 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON "Big Brother is watching you"; "All animals are ... equal but some animals are more equal than others" — these epigrams from Nineteen Eighty-Four and ... Animal Farm, George Orwell's two most famous books, have been part of the political furniture for ...

3. Valuing humanity and nature

   about animal rights, covered some similar ground. In short, moral realism takes a counter-position to ... existing nature. In moral realism we can be right or wrong in a moral judgement in much the same way as we ... can be right or wrong with a theory of the origins of the solar system. The book is largely structured ...

4. Portugal: With anti-austerity deal, left throws out right-wing gov't

   was 123 to 107 in the 230-seat national parliament, with the one deputy from the animal rights party ... People Animals Nature (PAN) supporting the censure motion. Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva, ... of social turmoil and worsen the right's chances of winning January's presidential contest. ...

5. Surviving the COVID-19 and climate crises requires radical solutions

   such as AIDS, Ebola, SARS, MERS and Zika also originated in animals. Spillover is a higher risk today ... environments, such as deforestation and urbanization. This brings wild animals in closer contact with human ... two options: go extinct or jump.” The relentless commodification and caging of wild animals adds to ...

6. Sam Wallman: A people’s comic artist

   Human Rights Award. Winding Up The Window: The End of the Australian Auto Industry tells the story of ... winning the right to join the workforce. In late 2015, Wallman travelled to Eastern Europe to document the ... Sharp, Wallman has produced animations for the Victorian Aids Council and a short animated history of the ...

7. Uranium and land rights

   Downs, Honeymoon and the dozens of others proposed, and the fight for land rights are intertwined. For ... domesticated animals and visible signs of agricultural land use. This racist ideology met the needs of the ... years, Aboriginal people have been fighting to win land rights and to stop the environmental destruction ...

8. Howard at UN tries to dodge human rights

   boycott the UN's human rights committees and activities. For the most part, Howard did what he ... resources, animated by the creativity of people drawn from around the globe, and shares with every other ... because it knows very well that UN criticisms of its record on indigenous rights and refugees are well ...

9. Letter from the US: Republicans move sharply right

   a Congressperson puts the representative from Wisconsin squarely on the far right of capitalist politics. Ryan ... brutality based on sexual orientation. On the extreme right of the Catholic Church, Ryan is opposed to all ... roll back voting rights won by the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Laws have been passed ...

10. Surrogacy should put �ɴdz����’s rights first

    �ɴdz����’s rights. For people who cannot conceive naturally, surrogacy is an important option for them to ... stories, there seems to be an unquestioning assumption that childless couples have a right to be able to ... individuals in their own right, separate from their ability to give birth. Instead, women are seen as wombs ...

11. Activist faces deportation: 'In Australia I have no rights'

    the right to nationality and any other basic civil rights. There are 400,000 Palestinian refugees in ... Lebanon, living in overcrowded camps. There are no unions to protect Palestinian workers. We have no right ... that Australia is similar to Lebanon. In both countries I have no rights. It has been a very mentally ...

12. NEW ZEALAND: Clark government moves right

    is a right-wing split from the Alliance. Anderton has remained minister of economic development. The ... a Commission for the Family (to promote and assist two-parent families), victims' rights legislation and ... new Labour-Progressive minority coalition government is more right-wing than the 1999-2002 ...

13. Friendly fire in the war on climate change

    “[t]here are many worthwhile societal problems to confront — animal rights, a cleaner environment, social ... appears to play a crucial role in the spread of various infectious diseases from animals to humans. Mann, ... the right-wing trope that environmentalists are ‘watermelons’ (green on the outside, red on the ...

14. Dutch election: Wilders stalls, but left still faces a stronger right

    safety-seeking consolidation of the right and centre parties. It will result in a more right-wing cabinet than ... left, 5 to the centre and 5.5 to the right. GreenLeft’s overall gain of 10 was the greatest (twice as ... presence — the Party of the Animals (PdvD) and the Over-50s party (+50) — have increased their presence ...

15. United States: Biden’s ‘bullshit’ climate promises

    a small scale because of its high cost. Right now, there is zero prospect of using this on a large scale. ... capitalism had created a “metabolic rift” between the cities and the countryside. Plants and animals grown ... to zero by 2030, to avoid catastrophic climate change. Greta Thunberg (right) and Joe Biden. Morrison ...

16. New bill looks set to overturn NSW’s archaic abortion law

    Liberals, Labor, NSW Greens and the Animal Justice Party. It is the first co-sponsored bill to ever be ... in a July 28  statement: “It's past time for women to have the right to make decisions about ... Association NSW branch, the Human Rights Law Centre and NSW Pro-Choice Alliance, a newly formed coalition of ...

17. Britain: 'Brexit' vote dividing all sides, but Corbyn right to campaign to remain

    has, over recent decades, threatened to fatally divide the British right. But left forces also hold ... would sweep away legislation protecting workers, animal welfare and the environment. The Green Party has ... right, any exit would not strengthen the left, but those with a reactionary and often racist agenda. The ...

18. Knitting Nannas protest Santos gas plan

    expressed to the IPC right now, Flood said. Nick Clyde from Lock the Gate Alliance told the gathering that ... ALP MP Trish Doyle, Independent MP Justin Field and Animal Justice Party MP Mark Pearson expressed ...

19. Lynas plans permanent radioactive waste dump in Malaysia

    — plant, animal or human. This takes place when they decay in the surviving cells damaging the DNA — the ... back down and accept this search for a “safe” permanent waste dump. Right now, through AidWatch, we are ...

20. Australia breaks Convention on the Rights of the Child

    human rights advocates struggling to free these children from our adult prisons is the Australian ... lawyers (who are working pro bono for the rights of these children), the Australian Human Rights ... offences.” Prime Minister Julia Gillard and foreign minister Kevin Rudd were very concerned about the rights ...

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